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As a baseball or softball player you’ve probably had this happen at least once during your playing years. You field the hard grounder or hard line shot only to find the ball stuck in the back of your baseball glove or in the web of your glove. Worse yet, the ball goes right through your glove. You look down at your glove only to see the torn or broken lace hanging out of the back of the glove. There’s a hole or gap that gets bigger and bigger with every ball that you field. And now, you start thinking about making errors or getting hurt from a ball ripping through the broken web. Thinking too much is not good!
Many times players will play with the break. They’ll tie it some way, some how. If the break doesn’t get any bigger, they’ll use the glove for the rest of the season until there’s time to do something about it in the off-season. For many baseball gloves, that ends up being the fix…the glove just stays that way…BROKEN.
Many players have older baseball gloves that they’ll "rehire" to make it through the season. Some of these gloves are broken too, but just not as bad. And sometimes these gloves are used into the next season or used until they become too bad to play with also. If you learn how to fix your own glove, you won’t have a stash of broken gloves that you go to when the one that you are using breaks…you’ll always have a good glove to go to when you need it.
Other players will reluctantly go out and buy a brand new, expensive and stiff baseball glove. If they only knew that baseball glove restringing is really not that hard at all… Read more…
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